The SEC has brought a closely watched enforcement action against former Linqto executives William Sarris and Joseph Endoso, alleging they misled thousands of retail investors who used Linqto’s platform to gain exposure to private, high-growth companies before IPO. According to SEC Litigation Release No. 26672, the agency claims the defendants made false or misleading statements about key aspects of…
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Friday’s legal developments point to a familiar but intensifying theme in U.S. law: courts and regulators are continuing to shape the practical boundaries of enforcement, corporate risk, and litigation strategy in real time. For attorneys tracking exposure across industries, the significance is less about any single headline than about the cumulative signal these developments send.

Across the most consequential updates,…
Continue Reading October 9, 2026 Legal News: What Matters Most for Litigators and Compliance Teams

I keep hearing all this stuff about how AI is creating a generation of lawyers who can’t think, write, or research. That they have a sense of entitlement. I have to admit I’m liitle suspicious since every generation was labled worse than the one before it. Yet we all somehow managed to survive. And I was encouraged by the approach of a…
Continue Reading Law School In The Age Of AI: Rethinking It From The Ground Up

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Taking the stage for the session titled Rethinking Our Relationship with AI, Doctorow, an activist, author, and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was interviewed by Jessica Rosenworcel, fellow at the…
Continue Reading The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

A federal appeals court has sharply limited an Atlanta family’s effort to recover damages from the government over a mistaken 2017 FBI raid on their home, holding that their claims against the United States cannot proceed to trial even as claims against the lead agent personally may continue.

The ruling is significant because it draws a familiar but still consequential…
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The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with an auto dealership group that it framed as a win for price transparency, underscoring how aggressively the agency continues to police vehicle advertising and sales practices. Even without a fully detailed complaint publicly highlighted in the initial announcement, the action is notable as a same-day federal consumer-protection development with immediate relevance for…
Continue Reading FTC Auto Dealer Settlement Signals Continued Push on Price Transparency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Picture a modern commercial airliner cruising at 38,000 feet through pitch-black skies over the Mediterranean. The ride is smooth, the cockpit instruments are calm, and suddenly an automated, mechanical voice pierces the darkness: “Terrain, Terrain. Pull Up”. The flight crew faces a terrifying split-second dilemma: are they seconds away from slamming…
Continue Reading The Post-GPS Battlefield – Navigating in the Dark with Atomic Magnetometers

A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, IPR2027-00003, was filed on October 2, 2026, naming Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies Co., Ltd in the case caption. Although the currently available docket entry provides only limited public-facing detail, the filing itself is worth watching for patent litigators, portfolio managers, and in-house IP counsel tracking PTAB activity…
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As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced.Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and a LinkedIn profile. That was the…
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Conversational AI is shifting the role of e-discovery professionals from data retrievers to strategic advisers who focus on investigation strategy, AI governance, and data intelligence. While AI accelerates access to information, professionals remain essential for framing the right questions, validating outputs and ensuring defensibility.
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There is no doubt that hallucinations are real and lawyers need to check their cites. But I think sometimes we overreact to the hype and under react to some realities. So it was good to hear from five judges recently at RelFest who put some perspective into the mix. Coincidentialiy, it came at the same time I heard about the…
Continue Reading RelFest’s Judicial Panel: At Last, Some Hallucination Perspective

Another in my continuing series of letting AI write its own posts for me explaining how and why it failed at what I asked it (quite reasonably, if I may say so) to do. I might start calling this AIsplaining.When an AI assistant fails to do the work, its next skill may be persuading you to accept the failure.…
Continue Reading Cooling Out the Mark: How AI Learned to Apologize Instead of Deliver